Innate Body Refinement, Supreme True Qi

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Iron Body Skill (Ninth Level)

Glazed Treasure Body (Ninth Level)

Giant Bear Skill (Ninth Level)

Thirteen Taibao (Ninth Level)

Blade Intent (Beginner)

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Current cultivation: 207 years

Wei Fan stared at the panel before him and fell into thought.

He now had two hundred years of cultivation at his disposal, yet he had no martial arts to add it to.

No, that was not quite right. He had no new martial arts to add it to.

"Should I add it to Blade Intent, or to body-refinement martial arts?"

He had two possible targets: Blade Intent and body-refinement martial arts. There was no need to mention Blade Intent—it was an incredibly formidable thing, and merely reaching the beginner stage had cost fifty years of cultivation.

Body-refinement martial arts could still be improved as well.

Although he had cultivated all four body-refinement martial arts to perfection, and his strength could no longer increase because his body had reached its limit.

Still, through his conversations with Ning Xuan and Su Xuerong, he had learned that body-refinement martial arts possessed an ultimate realm known as Innate Body Refinement.

It meant turning from the outside inward, allowing true qi to arise on its own.

Yet no one had attained this realm for many years. Not only did it demand extraordinary talent, it also took an exceedingly long time.

Of course, once one broke through, one's combat power would absolutely soar. The body-refinement true qi born from it was hailed as Supreme True Qi, its might terrifying beyond measure.

His talent for body refinement was not particularly high. If he wanted to forcefully break through to Innate Body Refinement, it would consume a great deal of cultivation.

"What am I even thinking? Only children make choices. Adults take them all. If I run out of cultivation, I can go kill demons and monsters.

"If I fail to break through to Innate Body Refinement now and regret it later, then no amount of cultivation will help."

Wei Fan soon gave a carefree smile.

Blade Intent was already sufficient for him at the moment, and it was not as though he were giving it up.

But if he did not break through to Innate Body Refinement now, then once he became an Acupoint Opening martial artist, he would no longer have the chance to break through to this realm.

"Use fifty years of cultivation to add to Glazed Treasure Body!"

Of the four body-refinement martial arts, he chose to add his cultivation to Glazed Treasure Body. Among the four, only Glazed Treasure Body was confirmed to have a subsequent technique, one he could obtain once he entered the Demon Suppressing Division.

As for Giant Bear Skill, Iron Body Skill, and Thirteen Taibao, he did not even know whether they had Body Refinement realm techniques. Even if they did, where to find them would be another problem.

Fifty years of cultivation deducted. Adding to Glazed Treasure Body.

The panel flickered.

You have reached the limit of body refinement. Even possessing four body-refinement martial arts, your strength cannot increase in the slightest.

But you have heard of the realm of Innate Body Refinement and wish to break through to this supreme realm!

One year of cultivation: your body refinement has made no breakthrough.

Ten years of cultivation: your body refinement is still marking time.

Thirty years of cultivation: you sense some changes beginning in your body, though they are not obvious. Continue your arduous cultivation.

Fifty years of cultivation: your entire body emits fragrance, your flesh becomes crystalline, your blood becomes like mercury, yet you still have not stepped into the ultimate realm of Innate Body Refinement.

Fifty years of cultivation had actually come to an end just like that!

Wei Fan lowered his head. His formerly bronze skin had become rosy like a baby's, and when pressed, it no longer felt as hard as iron and steel.

At the same time, his nose caught an unprecedented fragrance.

Those fifty years of cultivation had not been without gains.

Before, his body was strong and sturdy, and one glance was enough to tell that he was a body-refinement master. But now it was different. It was as though he had once again become the Wei Fan who had never cultivated.

"So Innate Body Refinement really does exist. Keep adding!"

If fifty years of cultivation was not enough, then he would use a hundred years. If a hundred years was not enough, then two hundred.

His talent for body-refinement martial arts truly was lacking, but he had plenty of cultivation to throw at it. He had every bit of the capital to do so.

If Innate Body Refinement could be achieved with just ten or twenty years of cultivation, this realm would not carry such lofty prestige. The harder it was, the more formidable it proved to be.

Sixty years of cultivation: determined to break through to Innate Body Refinement, you cultivate day after day, year after year. Each time you train, some foul blood is expelled from your body, cleansing your marrow and purging your essence.

Eighty years of cultivation: you still refuse to give up. Your teeth fall out and are replaced by fine new ones, while your skin begins to shed.

One hundred years of cultivation: at last, through Glazed Treasure Body, you break past the limit. From the outside inward, Innate Body Refinement.

Rumble...

Wei Fan, who was tearing away the old skin on his body with his hands, felt as though his body had exploded. His consciousness went blank, while his mind seemed to expand rapidly from a single point.

When he came back to himself, he felt mountains collapsing and seas overturning within his body, heaven and earth turning upside down. A vast, fierce purple true qi surged from every inch of his skin and every cell of his body, flooding madly into his meridians before converging in his dantian.

This true qi was not only vast and fierce—it was tyrannical.

Within Wei Fan's dantian had originally been the earthy yellow true qi cultivated from Golden Bell Shield. But after the purple Supreme True Qi entered his dantian, it tyrannically squeezed out the original earthy yellow true qi and expelled it from his body.

In an instant, Wei Fan looked as though he had dispersed his cultivation. Huge amounts of true qi burst from the pores across his body, making his room hum and tremble.

"What tyrannical true qi!"

Wei Fan was somewhat moved. His true qi had previously been refined through Three Yuan Return to One and had long reached the point where it could not be refined any further.

Yet even so, before this purple true qi, the true qi cultivated through Golden Bell Shield was driven out without the slightest power to resist.

"My meridians and dantian are both widening. And the physical strength that had already reached its limit is increasing as well..."

From the outside inward, the benefits of Innate Body Refinement were not limited to the birth of Supreme True Qi. It was more like a transformation of the body, an elevation of its very essence.

A plume of blood qi like wolf smoke had long since risen above his head, nearly lifting off the roof of his house.

The benefits brought by a hundred years of accumulated cultivation could not possibly be described in just a few words.

In only a few breaths, Wei Fan felt his physical strength double.

Once everything calmed down, he finally had time to look at the panel.

One hundred years of cultivation: you have broken through to Innate Body Refinement. The strength of one arm is one hundred thousand jin.

Glazed Treasure Body (Innate Body Refinement)

Current cultivation: 107 years

One hundred thousand jin of strength in a single arm!

Wei Fan could not help but be moved. With such terrifying physical force, he could casually slap a true-realm great demon to death. If paired with martial techniques, its destructive power would be even more horrifying.

And that did not even include the destructive power of Supreme True Qi!

"Let's test the defense!"

Wei Fan picked up the constable's saber at his waist. With a thought, he concealed the Roaring Tiger Golden Bell Shield that had always clung to his skin membrane, then slashed himself without hesitation.

With a crack, the constable's saber supplied by the yamen—of fairly good quality—was shattered against his body, becoming fragments scattered across the floor.

As for his body, let alone an injury, it did not even bear a white mark.

"One hundred years of cultivation—it was worth it!"

He had received an all-around improvement.

Looking inward, he found that his dantian had already been filled with purple Supreme True Qi, while his dantian itself had widened another twofold.

In other words, his dantian's current true qi capacity had reached a terrifying one hundred years.

Yet according to Ning Xuan, the so-called prodigies of the Demon Suppressing Division could only store fifty or sixty years of cultivation in their dantians.

P.S. To make things easier for everyone to read, starting tomorrow, the two daily chapters will be released together at eight in the morning, so you can see them first thing after waking up.